It’s quite some distance from Brighton train station to Tehran, but perhaps not far enough. On Monday one extremist, who had attended the protest at the Sussex terminus to support the Iranian regime and Palestine Action, said the war in Gaza was the “third holocaust” and that all Zionists “should f---ing die”. She was too idiotic to recognise the hypocrisy.
As in Tehran, where there is a clock that counts down to the destruction of Israel, Brighton’s protesters were not making a clear distinction between those who believe in the state of Israel and those who don’t. If you’re casually throwing around the word ‘holocaust’, you’re calling for the death of all Jews, not just Zionists. These various ignoramuses were so high on their supply of righteousness they were actually parading posters of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The hashtag groupies of #IstandwithIran are flailing moral vacuums. Did they stand with Iran in 2009 when the Green Movement, sometimes known as the Persian Spring (in which a mass protest movement sprang up), declared the presidential election fraudulent? Executions had increased three-fold under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. These human rights violations mostly involved juvenile offenders and gay people.
Did they stand with Iran during the 2019 fuel protests? Where were they in 2022 when a new protest movement took to the streets called Woman, Life, Freedom, after a young woman called Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by the morality police for the crime of showing her hair? Many brave young men and women have been murdered since then because the Iranian regime is a heartless theocracy.
Those in the Iranian diaspora, brilliant, educated, sophisticated people, will tell you what this regime is like.
Still, ignorance is clearly bliss, which is why we get the likes of the ludicrous India Willoughby announcing on X: “I could live in Iran. Better trans rights than the UK and US. We do nearly all of the bad things they do. Israel is currently wiping out a whole people – aided and abetted by Labour, who are shamefully trying to cover their arse. War crime. I don’t feel safe with Netanyahu or Trump having nuclear weapons. I don’t believe anything that Israel, US or UK say. Why should I? Because I’m English and should trust the BBC?”.
India is a trans rights activist. Her previous tweet (“Never thought I’d say this, but #TeamIran”) kicked off a row with JK Rowling, who responded by saying “India, a fan of a woman-hating, gay-hating, authoritarian regime? Colour me astonished.” Rowling offered to pay her fare to Iran.
It’s quite some distance from Brighton train station to Tehran, but perhaps not far enough. On Monday one extremist, who had attended the protest at the Sussex terminus to support the Iranian regime and Palestine Action, said the war in Gaza was the “third holocaust” and that all Zionists “should f---ing die”. She was too idiotic to recognise the hypocrisy.
As in Tehran, where there is a clock that counts down to the destruction of Israel, Brighton’s protesters were not making a clear distinction between those who believe in the state of Israel and those who don’t. If you’re casually throwing around the word ‘holocaust’, you’re calling for the death of all Jews, not just Zionists. These various ignoramuses were so high on their supply of righteousness they were actually parading posters of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The hashtag groupies of #IstandwithIran are flailing moral vacuums. Did they stand with Iran in 2009 when the Green Movement, sometimes known as the Persian Spring (in which a mass protest movement sprang up), declared the presidential election fraudulent? Executions had increased three-fold under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. These human rights violations mostly involved juvenile offenders and gay people.
Did they stand with Iran during the 2019 fuel protests? Where were they in 2022 when a new protest movement took to the streets called Woman, Life, Freedom, after a young woman called Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by the morality police for the crime of showing her hair? Many brave young men and women have been murdered since then because the Iranian regime is a heartless theocracy.
Those in the Iranian diaspora, brilliant, educated, sophisticated people, will tell you what this regime is like.
Still, ignorance is clearly bliss, which is why we get the likes of the ludicrous India Willoughby announcing on X: “I could live in Iran. Better trans rights than the UK and US. We do nearly all of the bad things they do. Israel is currently wiping out a whole people – aided and abetted by Labour, who are shamefully trying to cover their arse. War crime. I don’t feel safe with Netanyahu or Trump having nuclear weapons. I don’t believe anything that Israel, US or UK say. Why should I? Because I’m English and should trust the BBC?”.
India is a trans rights activist. Her previous tweet (“Never thought I’d say this, but #TeamIran”) kicked off a row with JK Rowling, who responded by saying “India, a fan of a woman-hating, gay-hating, authoritarian regime? Colour me astonished.” Rowling offered to pay her fare to Iran.